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Corporate greed, unchecked hubris, technology advancing too fast without any regard for its impact. All these themes are explored in the Fallout <\/em>games, and in the wildly successful TV series that Amazon debuted in 2024. Someone at Amazon probably should have watched it, before submitting an \u201cAI\u201d-generated recap so full of errors and flubs that the company was forced to blow it up. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re probably familiar with the short recap video format, a little \u201cpreviously on Battlestar Galactica<\/em><\/a>\u201d <\/em>segment that now precedes many scripted streaming shows when they drop a new season. They can be essential for viewers who need a refresh, especially since the large scale of prestige streaming TV means it can be more than a year since the last one debuted. They\u2019re short and easy, probably a couple of days\u2019 work in the editing room, maybe a bit of voice-over. <\/p>\n

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Amazon has moved up the date of the Fallout <\/em>season 2 premiere to Tuesday, December 16 at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n
But this small bit of human effort, to enhance the viewing experience of a show that reportedly costs more than $100 million per season to produce, is apparently too much for Amazon. The company has been using auto-generated alternatives that splice together short clips of the show with \u201cAI\u201d-powered voice-over to catch viewers up. If you watched the slop video for Fallout season 1, like Games Radar did<\/a>, you\u2019d think that the nuclear war that takes place in the show\u2019s flashbacks occurred in the 1950s. In the games and the show, as is constantly repeated and confirmed, the Great War occurred in 2077. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s the kind of error that you\u2019d see in a million \u201crecap\u201d edits posted to YouTube by people who didn\u2019t actually watch the movie or TV show, and which are now, of course, replaced with AI slop<\/a>. After the issues with the recap video were spotted by Games Radar, the recap was taken down from Amazon Prime Video. The Verge reports<\/a> that similar recaps were made for other shows like Tom Clancy\u2019s Jack Ryan<\/em>, and have since been deleted. <\/p>\n
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The aesthetics of Fallout <\/em>are indeed steeped in 1950s and 60s American imagery<\/a>, though its fictional timeline extends far into our future even before the world gets destroyed. It\u2019s an intentional and ironic choice meant to echo real history, when the world seemed to look forward to a mythical \u201catomic age\u201d of technology<\/a> even while dreading nuclear escalation during the Cold War. Fallout<\/em>\u2018s pre-war culture and technology are, in many ways, frozen for over a century as unchecked commercialism and corporate power runs rampant. It\u2019s a detail that\u2019s crucial to the series\u2019 identity and themes\u2026and the kind of subtle distinction that large language models aren\u2019t very good at spotting. <\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t Amazon\u2019s first issue with AI slop on Prime Video. Just a couple of weeks ago the company pulled AI-generated English and Spanish audio tracks from several anime series<\/a>, apparently generated and applied to the shows without the knowledge or consent of some of the original creators. Viewers complained of terrible audio \u201cperformances\u201d from the AI-generated voices, and started sharing clips that would embarrass fan dub torrents from the 2000s. <\/p>\n
Remember when Amazon made you pay extra for Prime in order to watch video without ads<\/a>? I wonder where all that money is going.<\/p>\n
Update<\/strong>, December 15, 2025: This article was updated to note that Amazon has moved up the premiere of <\/em>Fallout season 2 to December 16, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Michael is a 10-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he’s the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop “battlestation” in his off hours. Michael’s previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he’s covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he’s always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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